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7 Enchanted Cock.

Bring a cock into a room, with both your hands close to his wings, and hold them tight; put him on a table, and point his beak down as straight as possible; then let any one draw a line, with a piece of chalk, directly from its beak, and all the noise you can possibly make will not disturb him, for some time, from the seeming lethargy, which that position you have laid him in has effected.

To make a Sixpence leap out of a pot.

This is done by means of a long horse-hair, fastened to the rim of a sixpence, by a small hole driven through it. This feat should be done by night, with a candle placed between the spectators and operator, their eyes being thereby hindered from discerning the deception.

Dancing Egg.

Boil an egg hard, and peel of a small piece of the shell at one end; then thrust in a quill filled with quicksilver, and sealed at each end. As long as the egg remains warm, it will not cease to dance about.